intelligence

Smart is a figure of speech. Dolphins are not smart, at least not completely. Dolphins are very socially intelligent animals. Dolphins can be trained to do simple tricks, that is it. The tricks dolphins do are less complex than the tricks rats can do. So rats are smarter than dolphins in some sense. Dolphins are socially more intelligent but rats are better at tricks and sequencing or tricks. Dolphins have extremely short term memory, compared to that of a gold finch as well. This bird hides over a hundred caches of food each year and succeeds at finding most of them, in chronological order, the first hid is the first found. This crow in the video can make a hook out of a piece wire to retrieve food, not just pick up a hook and use it but make a hook out of a piece of wire. Dolphins have nothing on that. I am not trying to hate on dolphins or anything, I just wish people would understand that all animals, humans included while not necessarily equal are all important and intelligent in their own ways. My ability to remember is dwarfed in comparison to a gold finch. While a crows ability to use tools is dwarfed by a chimp. The point being intelligence is not logical or definable. So every time a person claims intellectual superiority they are just proving their ignorance.